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Never take sides Ash, and never come between it. If either asks you for help regarding it concerning the other, stick to your guns and don't come between them. Unless you hate one more than the other(i should probably have gone for love, there), or actually prefer one to the other, or wish to take sides. I only foresee messiness though. As much as my dad is an idiot and my mum does have good reason to be annoyed with him alot of the time, she's just as bad and I often have to bring her back down by telling her that, same to my dad. Srsly, sides aren't cool. Neither are parents, actually. They turn into kids when you turn into adults, srsly.

Personally I just run avast! and I'm behind my router, no firewall software on here, I just let Windows Firewall do what it has to whenever it has to(which seems to be rarely, or it does it unnoticeably). Used to have ZA but it seemed to bugger things up, can't say I've ever had any sort of problems either! Odd viruses pop up here and there but avast! gets them as soon as they appear. Are you just being precautious or are you actually having problems already?

Ok, those who saw my recent thread saw I got a caddy for my old HDD so I could use it as some extra storage/portage. I'm currently trying to clear up some space on it, and doing rather well, I've been using WinDirStat a bit too to help me see where the biggest critters were/show me how relative it is, mainly just to keep things interesting, and help me organise all like files together etc. It's amazing how disorganised things were! Anyway onto the point, did a little scan with WinDirStat, and my current biggest problem is 'System Volume Information'. It's hueg, taking up about 5GB! I've already gotten rid of the pagefile, the hiberfil, program files and most of the windows directory without any issues. I'm running Vista on this comp, the drive is from a laptop that was running XP. However! System volume information, I cannot delete! I try to delete it, nothing happens after it asks if I'm sure! I've tried regular delete in windows, regular delete through WinDirStat, permanent non-recoverable delete in WinDirStat(also how I located and deleted the pagefile and that) but it doesn't go anywhere! I tried a google, found some info that seemed to work for other people but just is not working for me! I used the info to make it so I could see the folders, but the delete just ain't happening. Also, the windows directory is all but nearly gone(just want it gone for tidyness). I try to delete it but it tells me there's an error as it contains something. It's currently 'Windows > system32 > drivers' like that's all that's there, no files, empty folders, but I still can't delete any of them! Why can I not delete either of these bastards, anyone know? Or even better...have a solution for me? EDIT:Fixed the Windows folder thing now, restarted the comp earlier and found what looks like a disk check log showing some sort of corruption there(maybe what bugger the original laptop in the first place) so I can now delete the Windows folder, but still nothing on System Volume Information! Grrr! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EDITEDIT: The drive has a 'Recycle Bin' and 'Recycled' folder on it, when I double click them it takes me to the Recycle bin, a whole communal one for my entire computer. If I simply right click these in the folder view and delete them it won't affect my actual recycle bin which still remains on my desktop, will it? Ok, it seems Vista is ultimately just a piece of shit, after another wasted day of stupidness, I decided to TRY running downstairs whilst my sister had her XP laptop out, hooking it up to that and deleting things from there. It went mostly without a hitch(annoying, given all the things i already tried in vista). I got something called BCWipe to help me wipe it, but it made windows error every few seconds, wouldnt taken forever to keep clicking away the errors whilst it ran. Is there anyone out there who happens to know why Vista couldn't deal with it, I'm most curious and most puzzled, too! So now, most/all of my problems are solved, except the last one regarding to Recycle Bin, as highlighted above with some boldness. "The drive has a 'Recycle Bin' and 'Recycled' folder on it, when I double click them it takes me to the Recycle bin, a whole communal one for my entire computer. If I simply right click these in the folder view and delete them it won't affect my actual recycle bin which still remains on my desktop, will it?"

I thought you'd told Moogle to leave you alone! jokes My days....two days at the work. I think I posted wednesday night, yesterday was somewhat better, but still got two rather crazy ladies. Also had a 16yr old who totes shouldn't have been there, ran away from a care home in west sussex and ended up on our ward cos she came all the way over here when she was picked up(got a hefty criminal record under her belt, and a tag on her). Such a shame she's gonna waste her life like this. But she got escorted back last night, and my mum got to go take her! I wanted to go because they took her in a caged ambulance, WITH BLUE LIGHTS! I would well wanna roll around with the blue lights on! I imagine she wouldn't have liked it too much, she panics whenever anyone goes even a fraction too fast in cars! Got out half hour late too, as we had to jab one of the crazy ladies before they took the girl back to west sussex, but I should be paid for my time so it's all cool. But ooo, came home and hooked up that HDD I spent ages removing last week or so, stumbling across all sorts of classic stuff I forgot I had, or didn't even know I had, mainly downloaded stuff, but also old chat logs, few pictures, just silly things. Need to clean this bastard up for some space! Also, anybody who likes game design should check this out, one of me best mates is right there in the top selection of ideas!

You should still do it, representative sample and all, on top of which you don't actually know whether you'll 100% guess it, nor whether it matters if you do. As long as you answer it truthfully, it's fine! You do know you don't HAVE to be a bastard, right? As for me, I'll do it, cos the guys here have helped me with my previous studies, and cos you're awesome, and cos I feel I owe it to the world due to the number of poor bastards I subjected to such things, too. Hit me up hit me up!

I've encountered somewhat of a problem. I bought the caddy that Twozzok linked me to, it arrived today. I've put my HDD in it, then plugged the cable in(which has two USB things on the other end, so I tried both seperately, as well as both together) in all 3 cases the little green light on the caddy came on...but nothing else happened. Like...nothing at all! Anyone got any ideas whats up with it? EDIT: I can hear it spinning inside? It's getting power... EDITEDIT: Nvm, I think I was just being a bit of a boob. Sorta got it working now. Glad I didn't just fuck it up! Man, finding shit on this drive I'd completely forgot, and some stuff I don't even remember! The amount of crap I'd accumalated in tiny programs and what not! Amazing! Gonna be a task to clean the bastard up!

Honestly, I'm not sure what curse words I don't use! I bloody love swearing, and all you people on your high horses or whatever they are thinking bad of swearing, you can all fuck off! They're just words. I'm quite a passionate/emotional person, and sometimes the harsh cut of some swearwords can just express me totally. It probably helps me not do worse things, actually! I love cunt, prick, fuck(in all its glorious varieties, the best sentences are sometimes the ones with little other words), shit, piss, bollocks, bloody, arse, crap, bugger(I realise these aren't really swears in some people's eyes, I reference them solely because they were apparently once bad to say!) I love em all, to be honest! Sometimes mix up words, like fucktard, prefix or suffix stuff onto other words, all sorts. One of my best to date was when I called someone a cuntburger, and they weren't sure which half to be more confused/offended about. Sometimes it's great just to call someone the most banal thing in the most offensive way, it's even MORE offensive than swearing, brilliant. I used to hate myself for it, I dunno why but I've sworn like a trooper since...ages back, late primary maybe? I think it was the novelty of finding all these brilliant words you're 'not allowed' to use, but it never wore off for me. In fact, sometimes its brilliant just because it's totally uncalled for(a bit like comedy racism, done well and 'properly'). Anything who hates swearing is just a prick, let's face it. Never heard of this snake thing though, maybe I'm just out of touch with da yoof of 2day.

Current dilemma, having an awesome weekend chilling at my mates from sat-tuesday probs, on t'other side of london, though I've just found out my other very good mate is back this weekend, how annoying! Gonna try and cram him in for friday night, though! Weeeee! Looking forward to what's ideally gonna be a most excellent weekend, even though there's rather little planned! Weirdness. Tch, yeah I know, and I do anyway! I was just trying to be nice about it though, god! THIS is why 50% just aren't cool, yeah?? If it makes you feel better, I've just had a shit shift at work too! Fucking mentalists acting all fucking crazy and all sorts of other shit that just...urgh, shouldn't be! Just glad the people there were the people there, nice to have a shit shift with good staff! Back in tomorrow though . Honestly, don't know how you full timers can be full timers so young, feels like such a drain of life! Though I guess I'm not doing 9-5s, which are probably alot less day consuming. Don't understand how people can do afternoons then mornings neither, imagine finishing work at half past 9 only to be back in by 7 in the morning! Yeah you did! Now, what about that meetup thing eh?

I second ReZ, what is the name/location of this strange toffee apple stuff? Whilst not being much a fan of toffee, apples, or toffee apples, I have a distinct partiality to the alcohols! I wish to delect in the tasting of such beverage. As for your friends, boo on them! They suck! They were totally in the wrong as IT WAS YOUR GODDAMN BIRTHDAY. Another night is not YOUR GODDAMN BIRTHDAY(as it is now officially known), if you'd invitied me out to YOUR GODDAMN BIRTHDAY and it wasn't a million miles away(read as 'was less than 5'), I'd have come out for it! Come to the meet, we won't celebrate YOUR GODDAMN BIRTHDAY, but we'll have a fucking awesome time! YEAHHHHHHH! Apologies if I'm made your birthday sound like an inconvienience, I feel continuously referring to it as YOUR GODDAMN BIRTHDAY may have done, but I feel it deserves the recognition and you need to tell your silly ninny friends what silly ninnies they are. Silly ninnies.

Hey! Less of that! You make my long hair sad Gotta agree with the folks though Dyson, that short hair looks much much cooler on you than the long. Looking rather stylish in the short'uns!

Bugs like what?? I finally broke into this on friday night, though I should have slept. Awesome game so far, got to go find my third person like. Wasted alot of time doing jobs(pulling pints with my own music on, awesome!) and that, to get monies, then buying properties to bring in some cash(it does come in rather fast, I played after two days(sun-yesterday) and it hit me with about 190k when I turned on! Naturally I used most of this to go buy more property! Bought most of the shops in Bowerstone already, few more to go and then the houses...then I'll move on to my next town! Currently a bit teetering between good and evil, doesn't seem to move much(maybe cos I keep robbing cupboards) but I'm as pure as the driven snow otherwise! Slightly fearing the game might be short main quest wise, but I'm really taking my time with that anyway, doing the odd side quest and job here and there. I'm a bit iffy about a few quests though, I can't tell if doing them will get me evil points, I don't want evil points! It's a different game to the first, but all in good ways I'd say, though the experience side of things seems a bit slow/hard to be levelling up, and I feel adverse to using those potions and stuff that you can buy that give you experience. Also, how the hell does the combat multiplier work and that?! I really liked that in the first one, bit of a shame how they changed it

Man, wish I'd known that before I went and spent £10 on that one from eBuyer(not to mention it takes aaaaaages to post). Oh well, too late now! Thanks for all the info guys!

Bailed on you? How? Like...you've not done anything all eve or what??

I've known a few lauras in my time, 50/50 chance of coolness. WHICH WILL SHE BE!? Today, well, was watching the Obama thing then the doorbell went some silly woman with a questionnaire i stupidly told her i was trying to watch the speech come back later(come back in 15 minutes to be precise) rather than not come back at all, so she did and it was too alte to turn her away so she sat down in my house and asked me lots of questions and I felt bad as my mate was here and it took abotu 20 minutes and he couldnt hear the tv cos of her and blaahhhhhh but then at the end she told me i might get £15 if i do a followup written questionnaire and £5 for definite which is kind of nice, I guess. Then brawled, then went Aikido, then come back and brawl some more. Thrown out my left tricep and left inside thigh like. Wednesdays usually ache enough as it is, then thursdays are even worse! I'm working both days too! I fear the morning! Had a nice chat with my mate(one of my smash brothers) over the night though, who's heading back to uni in the next week, really transitioned our friendship over the last year, and just thinking of that...well, quite awesome. He's never allowed to split up with his gf now, though(sorta know him through her). To end this post, which should shortly be done with me going to sleep so I'm rested for tomorrow(not slept much this past week)...I shall pose a question to Coolness. Coolness! Where do you live...and what are you doing around about the 17th-19th of July, 18th in particular...? Not my start so much, but probably one of the first anime series I was proper into. I'm not big into Anime really, just cos there's so much(and also with tons of episodes, as you pointed out), but FMA is goddamn motherfunking wickedtings all over the shop. Love it, absolutely love it, I'd love it with my penis if I could. I'd say once you're done, check out some Deathnote, it's only 44 episodes. It's not like FMA mind, just recommending some other short series Anime that I've actually seen.

This post was much funnier when I first read it as 'I'll be black'. ReZ clearly has different colour legs because he wasn't always a nerd. I always feel bad posting here without a picture of myself(which should be a rule, actually ) so I shall attach a picture that recently surfaced, my current profile pic in fact! I don't quite recall it being taken, nor what my face was playing at at the time. Silly old face.

Minjas! I really thought that, then said it in my head and realised it's probably a bit dodgy. Any much more info about the game? Gameplay, brief plot outline or anythings? The pictures certainly do look kinda pretty, as already stated in quite a wind wakery way, quite intriguiging....could this actually be some fresh blood for my wii? What's the word on wii specific features, if anything? EDIT:Scratch all that, only just noticed how recently it was announced, it'll be some time til detail appears then!

Yeah, I'm actually sure it didn't change my opinion, I'd already clocked her as pretending to be this person she wasn't. What's bothered me more isn't what she told me about the eating shizzle, it's how she was when she told me. I think THAT has changed my opinion of her, because that is her now. Whoever she was in the past is of no consequence to me, people change, I never knew that and knowing it doesn't change who she is now. The past is already cast, regardless of whether I see it or not. I can provide you with a log, though tis a longish conversation I guess. I'll PM it to you if you wish to peruse my current personal lifetings! Well emo mate! It's understandable though, but I'd suggest you lock them things back away, now's too soon to be drudging up memories of your youth, you'll still think you can live it and you'll miss this, the here and now part of your life as it's happening. Look at it in 5 or 6 years from now, hopefully then you'll be too far gone to lust after it, but still close enough to appreciate the good memories. I say that, it's easy to say, it's easy for me where I am here. For you, probably not so much. I've only ever truly lost a few friends, people who refuse to be my friend, ironically it's girls and due to girls and complications, usually. Had a few good mates drift away though, tis a shame, but all in all, you just gotta remember what you've got right now...and realise you wouldn't trade it for anything, not even what you had then. If you would, you're in the wrong place and you need to find something better! I gotta say, I've had a mighty urge to try and contact the girl from the summer, and actually just to be her friend to see if we can, mainly cos I'm always where we used to hang out as my mate lives well close to her now(other side of london, never went there before I knew her). Also throw in all the clichés, everything happens for a reason, plenty more fish etc etc.

Was a character no doubt, shame he's gone. I always found the banning policies here a bit weird compared to other forums, like no chance of appeals, repentage, reapplication etc. Lifetime ban, for life! As for me, well, I applied for the job with ~4min to go.. I was feeling on top of the world today, right there on top of it, I don't even know why, I was up there, I was happy with it all, somehow, for some reason. Applied for the job, a little bit higher, then one stupid girl managed to bring it all down, I thought I'd finally found a non crazy one, too. So she tells me she used to be all having weight issues, once so bad she was hospitalised...she's only told two other people(I've not really known her long, either). So she tells me, then really pushes for whether this changes my opinion of her, it doesn't, but she's really pushing and constantly implying/straight up saying it does! It really bugged the fuck out of me, and it's like...I dunno, I feel like my mind was already made up for me and I've had a bit of a go at her and she tells me *I'M* harsh. Ask me a question, shut the fuck up and let me answer, don't bother if you're gonna answer it yourself. Now I'm in a bad mood, and losing faith in it all over again. She said she told me because she didn't think it'd bother me, she was right, only if she really thought that why didn't she shut the fuck up and let me answer the question instead of doing it for me. And yet here I am, wondering if I'm the one in the 'wrong'. Feeling even worse knowing that I don't regret it, and even if I am in the 'wrong', I won't give two shits. Which makes me an utter bastard, and maybe a little crazy. Fucking people. Wrapped up in all their own petty shit. Fucking...argh! It annoys me more cos she's one of those people who pretends she's so happy and content and fine with everything and confident but I could always tell she wasn't really, and that's bugging me too. Maybe I'm just a massive dick. Maybe I need to chill out. Maybe I need to sleep. SLEEP. *sleeps*

Happy Birthday, Not-Henry! Make it awesome for yourself, for me, then come and chronicle the adventures here!

I got up(much earlier than expected, woo me!) went to work, got in from work about 50 minutes ago, put on some DnB to get me pumped. I need to write a fucking awesome cover letter for a job that apparently closes tomorrow. That could mean midnight tonight. I have less than 66 minutes to save the world...or at least my life. WILL I MAKE IT IN TIME, I'VE ALREADY MADE TWO CUPS OF TEA AND DONE FUCK ALL IN 50 MINUTES AND NOW IM POSTING HERE AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Topic has dwindled a bit, I've not been to the board for a while, but due to coincidence got reminded of this topic, so I'm posting in it! Thanks to Gizmo for vote of confidence and agreement, I was wondering if I was crazy, didn't see too many people with a similar opinion to mine, fills me up a bit I see numbers alot(I've cut the post, probably badly, I originally wanted to make another point) but with no idea where they come from. You give the numbers of Galaxy vs Halo, as I highlighted. Ok, in absolute terms, that's still an almost. In relative terms, such as compared to total console sales, that then means Galaxy's sales are much smaller than Halo's, surely? That's sort of my point with TS4. I just thought of something I didn't even mention earlier unless I forgot; I had TimeSplitters 3...and I bought it on Xbox as opposed to Gamecube. I may be an exception, but given my previous fanboy Nintendo loyalty(xbox was my first non-ninty console) I doubt that possibility. Marketing, as well, is a very big deal. Nobody will buy something they're unaware of. Even forget that point, if marketing and advertising wasn't such a big deal then it wouldn't exist, for anything, nor be such a big deal of big business. Do you know how much it costs to buy an advert on television? Games like Brawl and Galaxy sold a large portion I imagine, to people like me. People who'd bought Wiis on arguably false promises, and trying to fulfil those promises with the popular franchises(though Brawl IS a definite good game, superior to its predecessors...but £200 for Brawl, worth it?), then they'd have had some 'casuals' adopt it along the way too, I imagine. Brawl was released in March/May btw, according to the GameFAQs you quoted earlier, their polls of the day shows Brawl to be the Wii game of the year, bit of a poor show nothing in the 9 months following surpassed it? Many people ask me recently about my Wii, I tell them I only really use it for Brawl, and it's a fucking wicked game, but...is £200 for a game really worth it?? As far as ports go, costs of producing, marketing, and not selling. Well, the point was made already anyway, but if a game has already been made and you can port it for a relative fraction of the cost(as the development, dyamics, base programming etc has already been paid for and done) and it'll probably sell enough to make profit without marketing, then why not! Profit is profit, no matter how small. To market it to a base that probably won't justify the marketing cost however, will turn that profit into a loss, surely? Metroid, I never bought, Echoes was a poor sequel to Prime and I didn't have the monies to risk to afford it at the time. How is it all that niche, though? Could niche be used to describe alot of games on Wii, or maybe even then just any 'hardcore' game on Wii? I've heard it IS a good game, maybe I'll check it out one day, but probably not given what a rip I feel Echoes was. One bitten, twice shy. My point here, whilst a stretch and arguably only good on the principle, people who've previously favoured a wii version to alternative console versions, may have recieved something inferior and wished otheriwse, they may not make that mistake again, either. Basically, there's lots of reasons I can think of to buy TS4 on 360 or PS3, but many less to purchase it on Wii.

Another classic member...and another late birthday wish on my part! Happy Birthday dude, and your classic filter avoiding name

Weee! I'm late, but Happy Birthday anyway dude!

You big girly girl, that's quite possibly the girliest thing I ever heard! You...girl! Last time I cut my finger making tea I straight up punched a carrot in the face, showed that fucker who was sposed to be getting peeled! RARRR! I AM MAN!! (in actuality I whinged at my mum and somehow blamed her for distracting me, she laughed and I left her to make 'tea'(we call it dinner so as not to confuse it with tea) by herself, ha!) Today has been decidedly fable filled, rather un-job application filled, got a half decent CV I guess but still need to make that awesome cover letter. Job closes tuesday, so I guess I have about 22 hours to get this done. I also need to sleep yet, and get up by 10 tomorrow, and work from effectively 1 til 10 with travel and all. I was going to sleep about 2 hours ago, but then me and my dad had to go on a midnight adventure to rescue my prick of a brother and his Capri from bluewater, in my brother's other car cos my mum has her/my dad's car. This makes me realise that theoretically my brother has 4 times as many cars as my mum or dad. Hmm. I think I should see about that sleep thing now....

Not only is this a brilliant picture, you're also in Spoons, double win!